In honor of Sandra Bullock’s best all-time movie opening with “The Proposal,” this week’s DVD pick is another Bullock favorite. Movie romances must have two things: an obstacle to keep the apart and a reason to root for them to […]

This is lowest common denominator movie-making. Why not, it’s based on a lowest-common denominator comic strip. Garfield’s lighter-than-air comic strip is utterly generic because its motivating force is not art or comedy but commerce; the less distinctive the character or […]

Look closely at the little flying bugs buzzing and bumping in the hot light of the desert. They are, of course, Bugs: VW Bugs with wings. In the world of this story, all of the characters are cars and all […]

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